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National Tracheostomy Safety Project: Guidelines for time-critical, decisive airway management.
Tracheostomy and Laryngectomies are high-risk procedures in increasingly complex patients, meaning that it is not always clear how they should be managed in emergency...
Dying of Embarrassment? Why young women are developing ovarian cancer
“Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.”
“Blasphemy!...
Form and Function: approaches to the management of secondary lymphoedema
Lymphoedema management is a challenge for both the health care professional and the patient. Access to NHS treatment can be patchy, leading to long...
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy – a new tool for incision management?
Physicians and healers have been sucking poisons and toxins (for example, snake bite venom) from wounds for about 2,500 years . Cupping, a procedure...
The ‘Cutting Season’
Ah, school summer holidays! Childhood memories of endless sunny days (it only ever rained if you were caravanning or camping!), being out from dawn...
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Is There a Role for Humour in Medicine? If so, what is it?
For centuries, the medical profession and nursing profession have used humour as a way to communicate with patients, with each other, and as a...
